Due to a mistake during setup that left a data field blank, a Google Cloud error erased a $135 billion pension fund, which was luckily recovered due to backups on Google Cloud.
Google's cloud platform erased UniSuper's whole client account earlier last month, along with some backups.
Luckily, some of UniSuper's backups on Google Cloud's servers and elsewhere were salvageable, and the fund was able to restore its data, giving us all a lesson about having multiple redundancies. The $135...